Andrew Vizard
Aston Martin Salary
Race Engineer to Fernando Alonso
How Much Andrew Vizard Earns Engineering Alonso at Aston Martin
Andrew Vizard’s base salary at Aston Martin is £100k-180k ($133k-239k), our band for an F1 race engineer. A bonus of £10k-54k ($13k-72k) would put his year at £110k-234k ($146k-310k).
Chris Cronin sits a band higher as the senior race engineer on the same car. Vizard has only been a race engineer since 2024. Before that he spent five seasons as a performance engineer at Williams, and Aston Martin doesn’t publish what it pays him.
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Vizard's Job on Fernando Alonso's Car
Vizard is Fernando Alonso‘s race engineer, the job he’s held since 2025. He works with Alonso on setup, performance and the running of each session, inside the larger engineering group Aston Martin put around each car for 2026.
Chris Cronin is senior race engineer on the same car and the team’s trackside chief engineer. Vizard came up through data and performance work, and at Williams he was performance engineer to Lance Stroll, George Russell and Alex Albon, so he’s now engineered both Aston Martin drivers.
Secondary chronology of Vizard's Manor, Williams, and Aston Martin roles, read with the corrected 2025 Alonso start.
Describes the 2026 structure in which Vizard stays Alonso's race engineer alongside Chris Cronin.
2026 guide to F1 race engineers that names Vizard on Fernando Alonso's car.
Vizard and Other F1 Race Engineers' Pay
Vizard sits on the standard band for F1 race engineers, the same £100k-180k ($133k-239k) as Marcus Dudley, who now engineers George Russell at Mercedes, and Ferrari’s Bryan Bozzi. At Williams, James Urwin runs Alex Albon’s car, the one Vizard worked on in 2022.
Andrew Vizard's Route Into F1 Race Engineering
Vizard came into F1 on the data side at Manor in 2016 and spent six years at Williams before Aston Martin made him a race engineer in 2024.
Where Vizard Sits in Aston Martin's Pay Structure
Vizard is on the lowest pay band among Aston Martin‘s staff pages. Chris Cronin and Gary Gannon hold senior race engineer titles on £180k-350k ($239k-464k), while at the top of the team Adrian Newey‘s package is reported at up to £30m ($39.8m).
Andrew Vizard Race Engineer FAQs
Andrew Vizard is Fernando Alonso’s race engineer at Aston Martin, a role he’s held since 2025. In 2026 he works alongside Chris Cronin, the senior race engineer on the same car and the team’s trackside chief engineer. Cronin engineered Alonso in 2023 and 2024 before his promotion.
Andrew Vizard started working with Fernando Alonso as his race engineer in 2025. He’d joined Aston Martin in 2023 as a senior performance engineer and spent 2024 on Lance Stroll’s car. Some roundups put him with Alonso as early as 2023, but that’s wrong.
On Alonso’s car, Andrew Vizard handles setup, performance and the running of each session, while Chris Cronin is the senior race engineer above him. Cronin also coordinates testing and the track program for both Aston Martin cars as trackside chief engineer, a remit Vizard doesn’t share.
Andrew Vizard worked for McLaren Automotive, the road-car company, but never for the McLaren F1 team. His job there was design mockup work early in his career. His first F1 role came at Manor in 2016, followed by six years at Williams and a move to Aston Martin in 2023.
Race engineer pay puts Andrew Vizard on a base of £100k-180k ($133k-239k) in F1 Salaries’ band. A bonus of £10k-54k ($13k-72k) takes the total to £110k-234k ($146k-310k). Aston Martin doesn’t disclose engineering pay, and no reliable net worth figure exists for him.